Those Pesky Germans

A picture popped up on my news feed. It is a photo of a bombed building 17/19 Rosefield Street Dundee. The bomb dropped on 5th November 1941.
Dundee was not routinely bombed but this night after bombing Clydebank some kind German decided to lighten his load by dropping an early Christmas present on his way home.
My mother brother and grand mother were asleep in bed further down the road at number 39. I believe my grand father was at work as he was a baker.
So if the bomb Aimer was a little more accurate I might not actually be here to entertain you all on this board.
In another twist when my mother and father got married their first house was in the tenement next to the bomb site on the right just out of picture. That was where I was brought up until I was 8 in 1964.

 

Good pic. How many chimney pots ?

 

Most rooms had a fire (no central heating) and many families lived in 2 room flats. My dad shared his bedroom with mum, dad and 2 sisters in the Gorbals in the late 40s early 50s.

 

the fickle hand of fate, got similar story from Scarborough in WW1,my gran on holiday with family, German U boat came in harbour ,shot down row of guest houses my gran in last one,all rest of street destroyed, so one less turn or more turn on the gun firers trajectory and this reply would not exist either

 

Pontefract Baghill Station was attacked by the Luftwaffe during WWII (Pontefract was a garrison town at the time and the Sweet factories were being used a munitions factories for the war effort). They missed and took out a terraced house near the Hospital instead.

 

Further to my initial post. It was a stick of bombs which dropped. Most in park land or gardens.
The next bomb after Rosefield street took out an electrical sub station which was right next to a cinema which was showing at the time. Could have been a whole lot worse.

 

Probably not a Uboat, Scarborough was bombarded by cruisers Derfflinger and Von der Tann in December of 1914.

 

Maybe we sunk them and made them look like submarines

 

Bet it was draughty in the neighbours with no walls ? You ever have an al fresco stop over ?

 

sad that poor folk

 

Indeed. What I don't get when I look at these pictures is how one bomb took out just house. Is it that the bombs weren't that strong back then.

 

my gran said u boat in story, I was only young when she told it, maybe she knew a Hugh Boat who was involved, but she said it, also had a story about seeing zepplins flying over Altofts, her dad got her up and took her outside on a moonlit night and said "look at that Edith have you ever seen such a thing!"

 

probably lucky no fire involved think thats what took out streets

 

It was just a hanging basket.

 

in opening posters picture, you can see a picture in a frame still on bedroom wall. impressive stuff that ,some of ours have not survived our lass running up stairs to get her handbag when we late out

 

lol thats so funny .imagine he did have thick glasses on on few pictures i seen of great grandad

 

Look at the people sttod inspecting on the roadside and look above them to the right. The Chimney stack is in a precarious position. I wonder if that's where the song comes from:

 

Full of PLANTS

 

The authorities appealed to the nation after Scarborough was shelled in WW1 by a couple of German ships. They thought it was a good way to get recruits.
A bit like the "Your Country Needs You"
There was quite a lot of damage done to the town and the lighthouse was also hit and I believe it wasn't used again until the 1930s.

 

Probably Zeppelin LZ61, one of 10 over northern England the night of November 28, 1916.

The original target was Leeds but LZ61 was driven off by heavy anti-aircraft fire. It dropped a bomb on Dodworth before moving onto Stoke. Passing over Lowestoft it was shot down by three BE2c fighters and crashed into the sea with no survivors.